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📅 NSB MS 2017🎓 MS🔄 Round 7#️⃣ Question 16❓ Toss-up✍️ Short Answer

Today's nuclear power reactors convert about 4 percent of the potential energy in their fuel to make electricity. A new class of fuel being developed at DOE National Labs may increase this amount to 20 percent. In doing so, by what factor would the efficiency of the process be multiplied?

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